💬 Heather Denich doesn't like numbers.

[18Champs]

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

Let's not pretend that using Roman Numerals isn't stupid. But they aren't that hard either. At least until it goes from LXXXIX to XC and everyone freaks out.

 

[bama alum]

At least until it goes from LXXXIX to XC and everyone freaks out.

Like Caesar?

 

[bamascw]

So does that mean Roman numerals are going to go the way of cursive writing?

If you are too stupid to figure it out, we will just stop using it altogether! The American way

 

[OldPlayer]

Is there a value to using Roman numerals today (beyond the 12 on a clock)? If the Roman numeral system was so good, why did Rome fail? Asking for a friend.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

I say we use binary. That would make this one 111000. Or may be Hexadecimal where it would be 38 (and Super Bowl LX becomes 3C). I get the crying over it being only stupid people who don't get it, but the same could be said for those who don't get hex or binary. Maybe we should have the commentators speak in French as it sounds more eloquent.

 

[alabama mike]

Like Caesar?

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That's funny, I don't care who you are. Rolling!

 

[TerryP]

I say we use binary. That would make this one 111000. Or may be Hexadecimal where it would be 38 (and Super Bowl LX becomes 3C). I get the crying over it being only stupid people who don't get it, but the same could be said for those who don't get hex or binary. Maybe we should have the commentators speak in French as it sounds more eloquent.

Imagine reading a play by play on a football game:

100th and 1000 at the 11001, 110000 seconds left in the 100th.

 

[mando]

Imagine reading a play by play on a football game:

100th and 1000 at the 11001, 110000 seconds left in the 100th.

You know I had to decode this
4th and 8 at the 25, 48 seconds left in the 4th.

Sorry but wrote code for many years so binary or hex is/was a way of life.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

Hex almost seems normal until that letter creeps into it.
UGA up 17-14. Bama has the ball at the 29. It's 2nd and 1a.

 

[mando]

Hex almost seems normal until that letter creeps into it.
UGA up 17-14. Bama has the ball at the 29. It's 2nd and 1a.

Yep and you better put that 0x in front or "h" after because 29 and 0x29/29h is much different .

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

Yep and you better put that 0x in front or "h" after because 29 and 0x29/29h is much different .

Meh. I like ambiguity. Does 10 mean 10, 2, 16, or 481 (EBCDIC creeping in)? Who knows? More fun for me.

 

[RollllTide!]

They are in the lock box with metric road signs.

 

[RollllTide!]

150 meters to go on 2nd down. We as a country are too lazy to do the metric system. 700 kilometers to ttown seems like a long way. Didn't they try it in the 70s or 80s. All the building codes and rules about acres and baking is just too hard. Metric tools means you buy 2 sets of wrenches. PITA

 

[50+yeartidefan]

All that,....and then we have our other special measuument...
Foresters use "chains..1 = 66feet..."
God used cubits....."noah...make ur boat 300 cubits long" ....you know rest

deinch would not like that either

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

150 meters to go on 2nd down. We as a country are too lazy to do the metric system. 700 kilometers to ttown seems like a long way. Didn't they try it in the 70s or 80s. All the building codes and rules about acres and baking is just too hard. Metric tools means you buy 2 sets of wrenches. PITA

They pretended to try it in the 70's but there was no real plan and nothing making people comply. Absolutely no reason not to go metric other than the fact that I know off the top of my head that 220 pounds and 6 feet tall is pretty big dude but 99.8 Kg and 1.83 meters doesn't seem very big.

 

[Rolltide24]

All that,....and then we have our other special measuument...
Foresters use "chains..1 = 66feet..."
God used cubits....."noah...make ur boat 300 cubits long" ....you know rest

deinch would not like that either

50+ was there, he knows!

 

[TerryP]

They pretended to try it in the 70's but there was no real plan and nothing making people comply. Absolutely no reason not to go metric other than the fact that I know off the top of my head that 220 pounds and 6 feet tall is pretty big dude but 99.8 Kg and 1.83 meters doesn't seem very big.

"Their offensive line averages 136 Kg's, Pawl!"

 

[RollllTide!]

They spent money on road signs for kilometers but the only thing that stuck was with the kilo for the drug business

 

[50+yeartidefan]

50+ was there, he knows!

Several....it seems...of us where there....
But survived the flood...